EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

SURREAL RANDOM MMS TEXTS PARA ED INA, AGUI TAN KAAMONG YA
MAKAIILIW ED SIKA: GURGURLIS ED BANUA (Surreal Random MMS Texts for a
Mother, a Sister, and a Wife who Longs for You: Landscape with Figures)
Christopher Gozum
Unter Verwendung einer pangasinanischen Übersetzung aus dem Gedicht ›Landscape with Figures‹ des philippinsch-amerikanischen
Aktivisten Carlos Bulosan aus dem Jahr 1942 als Erzählung, schickt ein ausgebürgerter
philippinischer Filmemacher, der im Mittleren Osten arbeitet, surrealistische, zufällige und gefundene digitale
Bilder über Vertreibung und Sehnsucht an seine Familie und Freunde in die Provinz Pangasinan im Norden
der Philippinen.
Using a Pangasinan-language translation of Filipino-American activist Carlos Bulosan's 1942 poem ›Landscape
with Figures‹ as a narration, an expatriate Filipino filmmaker working in the Middle East sends surreal, random,
and found digital images of displacement and longing to his loved ones in the Pangasinan province of the northern
Philippines.
Christopher Gozum is from Bayambang, Pangasinan in the Philippines. He holds a Master of Arts in Theater from
the University of the Philippines and is an alumni of the 2006 Asian Film Academy Fellowship Program in Pusan,
South Korea. He won two Palanca Awards for Literature for his two full-length drama War Booty (2001) and The
Pasyon of Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Colorum Uprising of 1931 (2002). His films have been screened at international
film festivals and platforms in the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, India,
Australia, Greece, Italy, the U.S., and the Internet.
�RP 2009, Video, 15:20
�Director, script, camera, editing Christopher Gozum
�Music John Sobrepena, Earl Drilon
�Distribution Sine Caboloan / Christopher Gozum
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